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>> will, what are you doing? >> i think you sprung a leak. >> what are you doing? i ended up getting bron sites fr bronchitis from doing that. but it was funny. anything for a joke. >> "the west wing" succeeded with an unprecedented tv setting. a fictional white house with an idealistic president played by martin sheen. >> it's sick, twisted, brutal murder. >> and when "entertainment weekly" brought the cast back together for their great reunion, they were still honored to be associated with just a groundbreaking show. >> these people, i adored them. >> what's your name? >> toby. >> and the wo...

Workings of the white house. and now the cast of "the west wing" is still beaming with pride. >> part of me would have been happy doing it for the rest of my life. >> and in 1977, the mini series became the first program to show the horrors faced by african-american slaves. and now the cast of "roots" is celebrating the lifelong friendships they've enjoyed. "entertainment weekly" is reuniting the casts of these groundbreaking programs. >> you live with a hetero long enough, you're going to catch it. >> "will & grace" proved that america would watch a show week after week with openly proud gay ...

Our time and they all had something in common -- fantastic firsts. "showbiz tonight" is teaming up with "entertainment weekly" to bring you the magazine's extraordinary reunions of the casts of these films and tv shows, all now being featured in the latest issue of "entertainment weekly" that has just been released. we begin with those phenomenal firsts. the shows that dared to be different and changed tv forever. shows that were real breakthroughs because they dared to go where no shows had gone before. in 1998, it was a breakthrough sit-com featuring gay characters. and now the cast of "will...

Look at the numbers. 37 emmy nominations. the finale was watched by over 100 million people. 30 years later we're still talking about it. >> tim, off to you, do you agree? >> yeah, it was appointment television. if you were around in the '70s, you went home and watched "roots" every single night. no other show -- we really hadn't seen slaifr slavery portrayed that way before. >> what's your choice? >> i'm going to say "will & grace." the drama is out and done. >> it broke down walls in ways that hadn't been done before. and debra messing's character had so many lucille ball moments. how can we...

>> part of me would have been happy doing it for the rest of my life. >> and in 1977, the mini series became the first program to show the horrors faced by african-american slaves. and now the cast of "roots" is celebrating the lifelong friendships they've enjoyed. "entertainment weekly" is reuniting the casts of these groundbreaking programs. >> you live with a hetero long enough, you're going to catch it. >> "will & grace" proved that america would watch a show week after week with openly proud gay characters. when the show stars reuniting for the great reunion, it was the side-splitting mom...